Armed Forces Journal
 |
|
| Former editors |
William Conant Church Willard Church Henry J. Reilly John Callan O'Laughlin LeRoy Whitman Daniel Z. Henkin Benjamin Schemmer John Roos Thomas Donnelly Karen Walker Bradley Peniston |
|---|---|
| Categories | Journal |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 27,000 |
| Publisher | Michael Reinstein |
| Founder | William Conant Church, Francis Pharcellus Church |
| First issue | August 29, 1863 |
| Company | Sightline Media Group |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Springfield, Virginia |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0196-3597 |
Armed Forces Journal (AFJ) is a publication for American military officers and leaders in government and industry.
First published in 1863 as a weekly newspaper, AFJ was published under various names by various owners in various formats for just over 150 years. The publication went all-digital after the July/August 2013 issue, and last updated its website on April 29, 2014.
The brand is currently owned by Sightline Media Group, which Tegna, Inc sold to private equity firm Regent Companies in 2016.
It was founded by a pair of brothers, Francis Pharcellus Church and William Conant Church. William was a newspaperman and American Civil War veteran. In his youth, he had helped his father edit and publish the New York Chronicle; in 1860, aged 24, he became publisher of the New York Sun, and the following year, took a job as the Washington correspondent of the New York Times. In 1862, he was appointed a captain in the United States Volunteers; he served for one year, receiving brevets of major and lieutenant colonel.
Francis, who had covered the Civil War as a reporter for the New York Times, would go on to write for the Sun, where he penned one of the most famous editorials in American journalism: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
On August 29, 1863, the Churches published the inaugural issue of The Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces, a weekly newspaper printed in New York City. The paper's first issue carried this motto: "Established in obedience to an insistent demand for an official organ for members of the American Defense and those concerned with it." The paper included news of the Civil War, then in its third year, along with "important official reports, lists of promotions, discussions upon the various appliances and methods of war, editorial comments upon the various naval and military questions of the day, and a great mass of information for the use of professional and non-professional readers." A single copy cost 10 cents; an annual subscription was five dollars.
...
Wikipedia